Outbrain is a company that provides content recommendation solutions for blogs and publishers. Among their customers are such venerable names as USA today, Chicago Tribune, Slate and VentureBeat.
Data Center number three – The company recently decided to set-up a third data center and went out looking for what type of kit they wanted to outfit it with. Much to our joy they decided on the Dell PowerEdge C6100. Although they are currently waiting on delivery of the systems, Outbrain operations engineer Nathan Milford, has been playing with a demo unit for several weeks.
Earlier this week Nathan posted his initial thoughts, along with pictures and diagrams, on the C6100. The post is appropriately entitled: Some Notes on Dell’s C6100 Multi-Node Server Chassis
In his post Nathan talks about:
- Who else they looked at and why they went with Dell.
- The basic layout of the C6100.
- The “unscientific” testing, research and math he did on power draw on an individual node.
- How intends to deal with some of quirks and infrastructure changes the C6100s will cause.
My favorite quote from the post is:
SuperMicro, SGI, HP all have similar devices, but the thing they don’t have is DCS, which is more or less independent of Dell and can be agile like a smaller vendor, but with Dell’s backing and resources.
You’ll want to check back on Nathan’s blog as he plans to add to his notes after the servers are installed.
Extra-credit reading:
- A short video tour of the PowerEdge C6100.
Pau for now…